The Peace Education Program brings a unique resource to the 7th World Congress on Probation & Parole
The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) offers the Peace Education Program as a powerful resource for fostering the wellbeing of community corrections staff and the justice-involved individuals they serve.
Demonstrating its cross-cultural relevance, 700,000 people in 85 countries have participated in the Peace Education Program with transformative results, including 270,000 people in corrections, probation and parole systems.
The Peace Education Program is an innovative series of video-based, facilitated workshops. Its unique approach aims to increase self-awareness to support resilience, empathy and wellbeing through a strengths-based curriculum.
Course content and implementation support are provided free of charge by TPRF. Each workshop features international talks by author Prem Rawat, individual reflection, group interactions and workbook activities. Each session centers one of the following 10 themes: Peace, Appreciation, Inner Strength, Self-Awareness, Dignity, Choice, Hope, Clarity, Understanding and Contentment.
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“Slaying the Dragon” Shows the Power of Peace Education
Billa Nanra shares his story of incarceration and how the Peace Education Program empowered him to overcome a 22-year heroin addiction and get his life back on track. Now free from crime and substance use, Billa has become a facilitator of the Peace Education Program for at-risk youth and other groups in England. He presented his story at the 2025 American Probation and Parole Association Training Institute and you learn more about that here.
“This program is transformational. If people can hold on to the concepts that we learned, then they necessarily will act and react in a different way to the different stressors that come up in life.”
— Judge Kathryn Michael, Summit County Domestic Violence Intervention Court, Ohio
Click here for the interview with Judge Kathryn Michael and her court staff
More examples of how the program has supported rehabilitation and reintegration efforts:
• Peace Education in an Aboriginal-Managed Rehabilitation Center in Darwin, Australia
• How Peace Education Is Strengthening Malaysia’s National Response to Substance Addiction
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VIDEO RESOURCES: PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM
The Prem Rawat Foundation’s Peace Education Program is an innovative workshop series that empowers people from all walks of life to discover their own inner strength and personal peace.
Members of the Domestic Violence Intervention Court of Summit County, Ohio talk about their experience of participating in the Peace Education Program and making it available for staff and clients.
Juan Ramirez, a manager and former client at the Zazil Addiction Treatment Clinic in Cancún, Mexico, shares his perspective on how the Peace Education Program has aided his recovery and helped transform his life.
Billa Nanra shares his story of incarceration and how the Peace Education Program empowered him to overcome a 22-year heroin addiction and get his life back on track. Now free from crime, Billa has become a facilitator of the Peace Education Program for at-risk youth and other groups.
At rehabilitation centers in Johannesburg, South Africa, the remarkable success of the Peace Education Program in helping with alcohol and drug abuse treatment is “a dream come true.”